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Official agent skill

Principle Minimize Reader Load

by cursor in cursor/plugins

Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. An agent skill from cursor/plugins.

OfficialNo licenceAuto-check passed

Install Principle Minimize Reader Load

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-minimize-reader-load -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cursor/plugins principle-minimize-reader-load --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cursor/plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load .claude/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
principle-minimize-reader-load
GitHub stars
10k
Used in
8 other repos
Token cost
~524 tokens
SKILL.md length
281 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
99
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. An agent skill from cursor/plugins.

  • Works in 2 steps: Layers to trace. How many indirections… → State to hold. How much hidden or…
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Principle Minimize Reader Load is an agent skill from cursor/plugins, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope.

Its SKILL.md is about 520 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Cursor plugin specification and official plugins.

Example prompts

  • “/principle-minimize-reader-load”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Layers to trace. How many indirections sit between the question and the answer.
  2. State to hold. How much hidden or mutable context the reader must keep in their head.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9f451cf. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Principle Minimize Reader Load loads about 524 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 56 tokens; SKILL.md has 281 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~56
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~524

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 281 words (~524 tokens).

“Maintainability is the work a reader must do to understand code. Track two axes:”

— opening of SKILL.md by cursor
name
principle-minimize-reader-load
disable-model-invocation
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load of cursor/plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9f451cf

Used in 8 other repositories

We found 8 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 8 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in cursor/plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Bilingual Paper ReaderYuan1z0825/nature-skills46k—~961Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Web Page ReaderHKUDS/Vibe-Trading35k—~627Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Principle Minimize Reader Load

What does Principle Minimize Reader Load do?

Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. An agent skill from cursor/plugins. Principle Minimize Reader Load is an agent skill from cursor/plugins, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace.

How do I install Principle Minimize Reader Load in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-minimize-reader-load -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load in cursor/plugins) into .claude/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Principle Minimize Reader Load in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-minimize-reader-load -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load in cursor/plugins) into .agents/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Principle Minimize Reader Load in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cursor/plugins --skill principle-minimize-reader-load -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load, .gemini/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load, .github/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load and .opencode/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load in your project.

What does Principle Minimize Reader Load need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Principle Minimize Reader Load is instructions for the agent only.

Does Principle Minimize Reader Load access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Principle Minimize Reader Load safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Principle Minimize Reader Load use?

No licence was found for Principle Minimize Reader Load or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Principle Minimize Reader Load use?

About 524 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Principle Minimize Reader Load?

cursor (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in cursor/plugins, which has 10,130 GitHub stars. The repository holds 99 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: cursor/plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.